“China – Communist Slave State” – Page 139

Chinese police establish stations in Canada in ‘worrying’ crackdown on citizens abroad

On the evening of Feb. 7, a Chinese woman studying in Canada called a police hotline in a panic.

“Hello, is this the Fuzhou Public Security Bureau? I’ve been scammed,” the woman, surnamed Wang, told the operator. She described how she had been defrauded of about $400 by someone calling themselves a “love-life mentor.”

In Fuzhou, the capital of southeast China’s Fujian province, police tracked the fraudster to the city’s Taijiang district. The man, surnamed Lin, eventually confessed to scamming nine victims out of more than $3,700.

3 in the GTA? Shouldn’t they be shut down? Let’s ask Xi’s lickspittle Trudeau.

by Blazingcatfur•September 23, 2022September 23, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, WTF?

How the US Squandered Its Strategic Minerals

“The PRC’s [Communist China’s] long-term goal,” the Pentagon wrote in 2020, “is to create an entirely self-reliant defense-industrial sector—fused with a strong civilian industrial and technology sector—that can meet the PLA’s needs for modern military capabilities.”

While China has been relentlessly pursuing self-reliance when it comes to raw materials — especially strategic ones such as titanium, tungsten and cobalt, which are used in the defense industry — the US for the past several decades has been selling off huge chunks of the strategic minerals stockpile to the extent that the National Defense Stockpile is reportedly reaching insolvency.

by Blazingcatfur•September 22, 2022September 22, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Pope Francis Betrays the Anti-Totalitarian Legacy of John Paul II

Crux reports that the trial of Cardinal Joseph Zen, a stalwart opponent of the atheistic Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is set to begin this week in Hong Kong. Zen is facing charges for his association with the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, which “provided financial and legal aid to pro-democracy protesters” who publicly opposed a law that allows Hong Kong’s citizens to be extradited to mainland China. Prosecutors say that the organization was not properly registered. The trial has been delayed — likely for two days — because the presiding judge tested positive for COVID.

Zen was arrested earlier this year on charges of “collusion with foreign forces” in violation of the CCP-imposed national security law.

by Blazingcatfur•September 21, 2022September 21, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Pope Francis

Trudeau Commends Event Organized by Group Whose Chinese Affiliate Said Aims to ‘Spread the Voice’ of CCP

Any strong words Trudeau may mouth against China are to be taken with a very large grain of salt.

A democracy advocate is warning about the Chinese regime’s covert “cultural infiltration” after multiple Canadian politicians lent support to the opening celebration of a new Chinese library that’s part of a China-based project whose founder had said aims to “spread the voice” of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The new B.C. library was unveiled during a Sept. 10 “Night of the Mid-Autumn Festival” event held at a winery in Richmond, just south of Vancouver, which was celebrated by a number of federal, provincial, and municipal politicians and reported on by various Chinese state media.

by Blazingcatfur•September 21, 2022September 20, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Call China if you are serious about climate change

It’s been a “Twilight Zone” of a political week, from James Taylor singing “Fire and Rain” to cheer the Inflation Reduction Act to our Beto O’Rourke in New York looking for money to the Democrats in full “Daydream Believer” mode to pursue their climate change agenda.

by Blazingcatfur•September 19, 2022September 19, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Green-Scam

Monkeypox: don’t touch foreigners, says China health chief, as first case reported

A senior Chinese health official has advised people to avoid physical contact with foreigners to prevent possible monkeypox infection after the first known case of the virus on mainland China was reported on Friday.

“To prevent possible monkeypox infection and as part of our healthy lifestyle, it is recommended that 1) you do not have direct skin-to-skin contact with foreigners,” Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted on his official Weibo page on Saturday.

by Blazingcatfur•September 19, 2022September 19, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", WTF?

Is China reexporting Russian gas to Europe?

As China and Russia meet to consider wider issues, reports indicate that exports of Russian gas are finding their way into Europe – via China.

“The global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market is increasingly well-integrated, and regional demand shifts can help balance otherwise tight markets. This redirection of flows serves the interests of all parties involved,” Nicholas Kumleben, director of energy research at macroeconomic advisory firm Greenmantle, told DW.

by Blazingcatfur•September 17, 2022September 16, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "Ukraine - Russia"

Democrats go full delusional on climate change

China, not the US, is now the world’s biggest emitter

Hailed as America’s first comprehensive climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act was signed by President Biden earlier this summer. It had been thirty years and sixty-five days since President George H.W. Bush signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Rio de Janeiro. The UNFCCC’s objective was to stabilize concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere “at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system,” a threshold that the convention left undefined.

by Blazingcatfur•September 15, 2022September 15, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Green-Scam, USA

EU intelligence chief cancels Taiwan trip after Beijing learns his secret plans

The European Union’s top intelligence official canceled a trip to Taiwan after his top-secret preparations were seemingly leaked to Beijing in advance, according to two diplomats with knowledge of the situation.

José Casimiro Morgado, director of the European Union Intelligence and Situation Centre, was supposed to make the below-the-radar visit to meet Taiwanese officials in October, according to the diplomats.

by Blazingcatfur•September 14, 2022September 13, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Espionage, EU

China’s economy is slowing, its population aging. That could make it dangerous.

China’s economy is in trouble. The juggernaut that once looked bound for global domination is slowing down — and not only in the short run.

The Chinese economy’s projected growth this year has slowed to about 3%, missing the government’s target of 5.5% by an embarrassingly wide margin.

After decades of galloping expansion, that would be the second-worst performance in more than 40 years. Only 2020, with its COVID-induced recession, was worse.

h/t CV

by Blazingcatfur•September 14, 2022September 13, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

40 Percent of Americans Believe CCP Considers Itself at War With US: Poll

An increasing number of Americans believe that China’s communist regime considers itself to be at war with the United States, according to the results of a new national survey.

Some 40 percent of likely U.S. voters said they think the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a single-party state, considers itself to be at war with the United States. Less than 26 percent said the CCP doesn’t consider itself at war with the United States, while more than 34 percent were unsure.

by Blazingcatfur•September 13, 2022September 13, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

National Security Threat: China’s Eyes in America

Chinese intelligence gathering in the US takes many forms and has different purposes. Most Americans are familiar with some of their means and tactics, but not with how widespread and persistent they are.

Americans may know about the malware contained in that infernal TikTok app that their children use. They may know the Chinese military’s cyber-intelligence service was likely behind many of the largest hacks of Americans’ personal data that have ever occurred. They may know from the news how US defense and intelligence policy have sanctioned Chinese telecom giant Huawei, and counseled America’s allies to reject Chinese-architected implementations of 5G networking, due to evidence that China has planted backdoors in commercial networking equipment designed to allow the Communist regime in Beijing to conduct surveillance and cyber-espionage anywhere in the world.

Do they know it extends to consumer-level drones?

by Blazingcatfur•September 12, 2022September 12, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Espionage, USA

Putin and Xi welcome Iran to anti-West ‘dictators’ club’

The Shanghai Co-Operation Organisation was once a small, obscure list of autocrats that posed no real threat. Not any more, writes Matthew Campbell

Authoritarian world leaders including President Putin of Russia and President Xi of China will gather this week in Central Asia for the annual summit of an obscure organisation which has attracted little global attention since its founding in 1996.

That is about to change, for the Shanghai Co-Operation Organisation (SCO) is poised to take a bold step. In a development certain to irritate Washington, it is granting membership to Iran, a country regarded in America as a state sponsor of terrorism.

by Blazingcatfur•September 11, 2022September 11, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Iran, Russia

China Moving to Project Power Into the Arctic: Experts

China aims to project power through new economic and military projects in the Arctic, according to experts.

By securing new trade routes and military access in the Arctic, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seeks to expand its capacity for “global power projection,” according to Rick Fisher, a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center.

by Blazingcatfur•September 11, 2022September 10, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada

China’s creeping media influence and how democracies can repel it

A new report shows the Chinese Communist Party’s effort to expand sway over international media — and what a democracy’s response must be.

The Chinese Communist Party does not take kindly to criticism, either at home or abroad.

But while its extremely low Press Freedom Index ranking reveals the extreme measures it takes to control information in China, influencing media narratives around the world is more difficult.

But that hasn’t stopped it from trying. A new report, released on Thursday by US-based free speech think tank Freedom House, reveals that from 2019 to 2021 China made a concerted effort expand its media footprint and silence critical reporting.

by Blazingcatfur•September 9, 2022September 8, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"